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Leonard Bernstein — the composer, conductor, pianist and rule-breaker — offered the classical music world a different model, drawing on an American vernacular in his compositions, and challenging the stodgy, forbidding European stereotype in his conducting.

In his passport, for “profession,” he described himself in just one word: musician.

Certainly that’s a simplification. Arguably no other musician of Bernstein's generation, or perhaps any generation, had a more multi-faceted career in music. As his centennial is being celebrated this year world-wide, there is one recurring theme that resonates to many music lovers — Bernstein is American music.

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